While I was in Chicago for AWP, I just happened to run into my friend Eric, a professional snowboarder. I haven't seen him in 18 years! And there he was, across the street from the Hilton at Grant Park. I want to be a ripper now!

Once again, more confirmation that I do not belong in academia. I have more in common with punks who carry snowboards. ;)

Congrats again on being a Grandma! That's so awesome! And I feel you on the academia thing. I love learning of course. I loved my lit classes. And I liked being an English major. But I think I'd rather shove bamboo under my fingernails than have long drawn out conversations about most of that stuff!

And I'm a simple woman too. The simple things are all I need. The older I get, the more this is confirmed for me.

I'm waiting on grandbaby #8 and I know I'm way too young to be doing that :) My contemporaries are working on #1 or #2. A grandchild can only change your life for the better. Consider it an early blessing.

You can always change your hair, but then again I haven't trusted a salon with my hair for 19 years, ever since they turned me into Lucille Ball...the front half of my head only......